I’m already weary of debunking Republican talking points about President Obama’s stimulus. Now Karl Rove’s SuperPAC has …
The New New Deal
Obama Is Wrong: He Made Change from the Inside
Barack Obama campaigned as a change-the-system outsider, but he has governed as a work-the-system insider. There’s no shame in that. But that’s what made his comment about how change doesn’t happen from the inside so …
‘You Were a Senator’: Joe Biden’s Weird Relationship with His Boss
How the Clintonites Launched Obamanomics
It’s well known that Barack Obama stocked his Administration with Bill Clinton’s people, including his extremely Clintonesque Secretary of State and all three chiefs of staff as well as most of his top economists and dozens …
Paul Ryan and the Stimulus, Part 2: Make Him Stop!
The blogosphere has done a nice job of exposing the lies and hypocrisies in Paul Ryan’s prime-time convention speech — not that it will have any effect on his unassailable reputation for courageous straight talk. I’ve already banged my spoon on this high chair before, but I do feel a special responsibility to recount the golden …
Struggling to Sell Change: A Politically Daft Blast from the Obama Past
My new book about the Obama administration and its stimulus package, The New New Deal, has a provocative subtitle: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. My new story in the magazine, adapted from the book, takes a shot at the question: Why was it hidden? It’s a combination of relentless Republican distortion, awful Democratic …
Chris Christie’s Race to the Bottom
In honor of his keynote speech Tuesday night, I thought I’d recount a revealing story about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie from my new book, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. If you think of …
Mark Sanford’s Lonely Battle for Austerity: Did It Lead Him to the Appalachian Trail?
The Party of No: New Details on the GOP Plot to Obstruct Obama
TIME just published “The Party of No,” an article adapted from my new book, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. It reveals some of my reporting on the Republican plot to obstruct President Obama …
Paul Ryan and the Stimulus: A Match Designed to Make My Head Explode
My main obsession these days is President Obama’s misunderstood stimulus bill—why, yes, thanks for asking, The New New Deal did come out today—but I’m also fascinated by the partisan Republican budget-buster Paul Ryan and …
A New Wind Blowing: Obama’s Clean-Energy Revolution
Before President Obama took office, the U.S. had 25 gigawatts of wind power, and the government’s “base case” energy forecast expected 40 GW by 2030. Well, it’s not quite 2030 yet, but we’ve already got 50 GW of wind. …
Why on Earth Would the Obama Campaign Call Solyndra ‘Successful and Innovative’? Because It Was.
In this cauldron of stupidity we call a presidential campaign, the scandal of the minute is Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith’s description of Solyndra as “successful and innovative.” She actually said Solyndra was …